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PATENTED MAY 24, 1904.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

DANIEL F. MORGAN, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 760,547, dated May 24, 1904:.

Application file. February 1, 1904. Serial No. 191,496. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL F. MORGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at T- ledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gauntlets or Gloves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in gloves, and has especial relation to that class thereof having long wrist extensions or cuffs and known as gauntlets; and it consists in certain peculiarities of the construction, novel arrangement, and operation of the various parts thereof, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and specifically claimed.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a gauntlet or glove which is especially designed for the use of chauffeurs, motormen, engineers, firemen, bridge-builders, linemen, and others who require a durable and well-fitting gauntlet or glove .which shall be so made as to prevent the admission of dust, cold air, or wind up the garment-sleeve of the wearer, as well as to permit of the free and unrestrained movement of the hand at the wrist in any direction.

Another object is to provide a gauntlet of the above-named character which shall be of such construction that it can be easily put on or readily and quickly withdrawn or pulled ofi" the hand in a case of emergency, which often occurs with chauffeurs and railroad men.

Still another object is to so connect the cuff portion with the body of the glove or handcovering that they will virtually have indeit, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which- I I Figure 1 is a top plan view of a gauntlet embodying one form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the palm side of the gauntlet, showing the thumb piece turned downwardly. Fig. 3 is an enlarged bottom plan view of the cuff portion and a part of the glove or hand-covering. Fig. 4 is a de tail view of the gore used in connecting the lower portions of the pieces comprising the cuff portion of the gauntlet. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken on line 5 5 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction indicated by the arrows and showing the glove portion turned laterally with respect to a portion of a cuff and illustrating the position assumed by a portion of the connection between said parts. Fig. 6 is a detached view of one of the connecting-pieces used for uniting the glove or hand-covering to the inner portion of the cuff of the gauntlet; and Fig. 7 is a view in side elevation of the palm side of a portion of the gauntlet, showing a modification in the construction thereof.

Like numerals of reference refer to corresponding parts throughout the different views of the drawings.

The reference-numeral 10 represents the body of the glove or hand-covering, which may be of the ordinary or any preferred construction and made of any suitable material. That portion of the glove or hand-covering which when in position on the hand lies about the wrist ends in paralleledges 11, having an inwardly-extending V-shaped recess 12, in

which is secured, by means of stitches or otherwise, the inner end of the gore 13, which is employed to unite the lower edges of the parts 14 and 15, which, together with the gore and connecting-pieces 16, form the cuff portion 17 of the gauntlet.

As will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings, the cuff portion 17 is mainly made up of two pieces 14 and 15, which are counterparts of one another and preferably of the shape shown in said figure that is, each of said sections consists of a piece tapered from its outer end to its inner portion and formed at its inner portion with an outwardly-curved recess 18, to the edges of each of which are secured, by means of stitches or otherwise, the curved edges of each of the connecting-pieces 16, which have their other edges straight and parallel with one another and are attached to the edges 11 of the wrist portion of the glove or hand-covering.

The portions forming the cuff 17 and connecting-pieces 16 may be of any suitable material; but I usually make the connectingpieces 16 out of the same kind of material thatthe glove 10 is formed of and make the portions comprising the cuff of somewhat heavier, stiffer, and thicker material, so that it will normally present a cuff portion in crosssection approximately in the form of a narrow vertical oval, slightly tapered toward its inner portion and adapted to expand when it is slipped over the wearers sleeve and, through its natural resiliency, to embrace said sleeve and maintain a proper set of the gauntlet thereon. The connecting portions 16, uniting the inner portions of the cuff 17 to the wrist portion of the glove, are quite flexible and, as will be clearly understood by reference to Fig. 3, when in place present an outwardly-flaring or enlarged portion around the wrist of the wearer, thus allowing the gauntlet to be easily put on or quickly and readily removed without the least restraint. This flexible connection will when the hand is bent laterally in either direction permit free movement of the hand and glove thereon without disturbing the position of the cuff to any material extent and when bent laterally will pucker or form into smaller bonds, as is clearly shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings. To permit of the vertical movement of the hand without restraint, the seam 19, which unites the thumb-piece 20 to the back of the glove, is extended forwardly of the upper longitudinal meeting edges 21 of the sections 1 1 and. 15, forming a part of the cuff, or is extended toward the palm portion of the glove, as is clearly shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 7 of the drawings.

The gore 13, which unites the sections 1 1 and 15, comprising the cuff at their lower longitudinal edges 22, is preferably made of material possessing more flexibility than that of the said sections, and as the gore extends into the recess 12 of the wrist portion of the glove it is apparent there will be little or no resistance against the downward movement of the hand.

In Fig. 7 of the drawings I have shown a modification in the construction of the gauntlet which consists in forming the inner ends of the sections let and 15, comprising a part of the cuff, with curved recesses 18, as in the first-named construction, to receive the curved edges of the connecting portions 23 on the front and rear of the wrist portion of the glove, which in this modified construction are made integral therewith instead of being sewed to the edges 11, as in the first-named construction; otherwise this modified form of the gauntlet does not differ from that shown in Figs. 1 to 6, inclusive, and above described.

From the foregoing and by reference to the drawings it will be readily seen and clearly understood that by my construction I afford a gauntlet which may be readily placed on the hand and quickly removed therefrom and which has no elastic or drawn portions to bind or encumber the wrist of the wearer. It is also evident that the coat-sleeve of the person wearing the glove will not be worn by the continuous movement of the cuff, as by my construction the cuff is held practically motionless on the sleeve and in such a manner as to permit of the utmost freedom of the hand in any direction.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a gauntlet, the combination with a hand-covering having the seam which secures the rear portion of the thumb-piece thereto extending toward the palm side, of a cufl' portion comprising two pieces, each having a curved recess at its inner end, and a gore connected to the lower longitudinal edges of said pieces and at its inner end to the wrist part of said covering, the upper longitudinal edges of said pieces being connected together and to the hand-covering at the rear of said thumbpiece-sccuring seam, and connecting portions having curved parts connected to the curved edges of the cuff portion, and united to the wrist part of the hand-covering, substantiall y as described.

2. In a gauntlet, the combination with a hand-covering made of flexible material and having the seam which secures the rear portion of the thumb-piece thereto extending toward the palm side and provided in the lower part of the wrist portion with a recess, of a cuff portion comprising two pieces of less flexible material than the hand-covering, means uniting the inner end of the cuff portion with the wrist portion of the hand-covering, a gore of material more flexible than the cuff-portion pieces connected to the lower longitu .linal edges of said cuff-portion pieces and at its inner end to the edges of the recess in the wrist part of the hand-covering, the upper longitudinal edges of said cuff-portion pieces being connected together and to the hand-covering at the rear of said tlmmb-piece-securing scams, substantially as described.

DANIEL F. IVIORGAN.

Witnesses:

FLORA (J. KITZMILLER, G. \V. KrrzmLLuiz. 

